[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> Nice try at rewriting history but it won't wash.
> 
> [Arlo]
> No rewriting at all. Even the simplest review of the historical 
> record, which any one can do at their leisure, demonstrates that the 
> Nazi regime was far from "atheist". As I said, it doesn't take much 
> reading (start with Shirer's monumental "Rise and Fall of the Third 
> Reich") to see this.
> 
> Hitler could have said anything he wanted about the swastika, it is 
> still a fact they chose a religious symbol, and then overlapped this 
> symbol with nationalistic colors, "those revered colors expressive of 
> our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor 
> to the German nation" (Hitler, Wikidia)

I prefer to get my "facts" from the source rather than third or fourth-
handers.

> As for Hitler himself, Wikipedia has a good overview on the topic of 
> Hitler and Religion 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs)
> 
> A segment follows.
> 
> "In Hitler's belief God created a world in which different races 
> fought each other for survival as depicted by Arthur de Gobineau. The 
> "Aryan race," supposedly the bearer of civilization, is allocated a 
> special place: "What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence 
> and the reproduction of our race ... so that our people may mature 
> for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the 
> universe. ... Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves 
> be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence."

> You can try to paint Nazism as "athestic" all you want, but the 
> historical record shows it differently.

The whole emphasis of National Socialism was the primacy of the nation-
state and the glory of the Fuhrer. To suggest it was in any way a religious 
movement inspired by God is pure bunk. 

 



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